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Richard Donnelly's avatar

Thanks Jim good luck. Have you thought of using ARCs?

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Jim Melvin's avatar

Hi Richard. I've used those before. I'm purposely doing a soft launch for Volumes 1 (today's release) and 2 (June or July). I'm not going to start doing heavy promotions until Volume 3 comes out around October. So I'm not expecting to see a whole lot of action until then.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

I mention it because I have to think reviews are huge. And of course ARCs are used to drive reviews.

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Jim Melvin's avatar

My original version of book 1 had 172 reviews. Not great, but not terrible. I'm going to see if Amazon will transfer them over, though I doubt they will since this ia a new edition with additional content.

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

That's an impressive number for a self publisher. Very.

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Jim Melvin's avatar

The 172 was with a midsized publisher.

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Jim Melvin's avatar

Thanks!!!

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Jeanne Malmgren's avatar

Congrats on debut day!

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